Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Milton Burbano Borquez, chairman of the Ecuadorian Cultural Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea who was elected chairman of the Ecuadorian committee for remembering President Kim Il Sung, said at its inaugural ceremony held on June 6:

It is the noble moral obligation and duty of us struggling for the human cause of independence under the banner of the Juche idea to eternally hold in high esteem President Kim Il Sung, founder of the Juche idea and outstanding leader of the world revolution.

Kim Il Sung was the great man who defeated U.S. and Japanese imperialism in one generation, turned the DPRK into a socialist power and devoted his all to achieving the country's prosperity and people's happiness and realizing the human cause of independence.